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April 25: Pushcart Prize 2022, Prose: “Reality TV” by Michael Kardos, “Our Vices” by Dominica Phetteplace, “Letter from Brooklyn” by D. Nurkse; Poetry: “Dedicated” by Kathy Fagan and “Ceremony” by Margaret Ross, Taught by Nancy Connors

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May 2: Peter Ho Davies, A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Mariner) Taught by Peter Ho Davies. Discussion led by Cynthia Weiner

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May 9: Gerald Stern, Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018 (Norton) Taught by Philip Schultz and Lisa Bellamy

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May 16: Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Penguin) Taught by Lesley Dormen

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May 23: Tove Ditlevsen, The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency (Picador) Taught by Francesca Moroney

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May 30: Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat: Stories, (Grove Press)Taught by Lucinda Holt

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June 6: Wesley McNair, Late Wonders: New & Selected Poems(Godine) Taught by Wesley McNair. Discussion led by Philip Schultz

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June 13: John Koethe, Beyond Belief: Poems (FSG) Taught by Peter Krass

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Suggested Reading List

Fiction: Javier Marias, The Infatuations; Paul Beatty, The Sellout; John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead; Tommy Orange, There, There; Jenny Erpenbeck, Go Went Gone; Mohsin Hamid, Exit West; Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black; Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel; Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies; Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening; Richard Powers, The Overstory; NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory; Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures (a memoir); Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

Poetry: Kevin Young, Brown; Nick Laird, Feel Free; Jericho Brown, The Tradition; Diane Seuss, Frank: Sonnets; Victoria Chang, Obit; Anne Sexton, Selected Poems of Anne Sexton; Patrick Phillips Song of the Closing Doors; Jennifer Franklin, If Some God Shakes Your House; Mihaela Moscaliuc, Cemetery Ink